Protecting

Sugarcanes

Capture - Process - Deliver

Protecting

Sugarcanes

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Mr. Babusaheb Tawde met us on one of our demo for grapes in Nashik. He owns around 15 acre of sugarcane farm. He was checking out what we can do for his sugarcane crop. We decided to visit his farmland while returning back to Bangalore.

At Mr. Tawde’s farm, in naked eye, everything looked fine & green. We decided to do a sortie of a fixed wing with NDVI & RGB sensor mounted to capture the data of his crop. Soon the crop health came on our monitor to show him whats happening back of his eye, and what is going to happen further more.

Drones In

Sugarcane Farms

Finding

Sugarcane Growth

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Mr. Tawde was sure of his treatment to crops 15 days back and we had lengthy discussion to make him understand what the images processed showing in RED, GREEN / YELLOW mean for his crop. His crop had got the initial stage fungus called wilt.

Since Mr. Tawde was not really sure of what if we spray some wrong fungicides / pesticides of our own? since we were not advocating any specific brands to be used to control the fungus, we decided to call local agriculture university and presented the crop analysis to the Prof. Chitnis on an email.

Upon recommendation from Prof. Chitnis, we did spraying liquid fungicide suggested by him for the crops. Still Mr. Tawde decided to spray it only for 5 acres where rest 10 acres were not sprayed. We left for BLR.